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Monthly Archives: March 2016

By Henry Neufeld The sixth mark Dave discusses in Seven Marks of a New Testament Church is fervent prayer (pp. 39-42).
There are a variety of views of what it means to be “the church” or what it means to be Christian. For some, it’s a matter of holding the correct set of beliefs. …read more

By Roger Pearse We now come to the start of the portion of the Annals where the Muslims take centre stage. But there is still some Roman and Sassanid Persian history to run.
CALIPHATE OF ABU BAKR (11-13 / 632-634)
1. The Muslims were unanimous in giving the bay`ah to Abu Bakr, i.e. to …read more

By Roger Pearse We now come to the start of the portion of the Annals where the Muslims take centre stage. But there is still some Roman and Sassanid Persian history to run.
CALIPHATE OF ABU BAKR (11-13 / 632-634)
1. The Muslims were unanimous in giving the bay`ah to Abu Bakr, i.e. to …read more

By Roger Pearse We now come to the start of the portion of the Annals where the Muslims take centre stage. But there is still some Roman and Sassanid Persian history to run.
CALIPHATE OF ABU BAKR (11-13 / 632-634)
1. The Muslims were unanimous in giving the bay`ah to Abu Bakr, i.e. to …read more

By April DeConick My book is becoming more and more real. I have a cover! Waiting still for the typeset proofs. It is slated to be published in September 2016. In the meantime, I have to share the cover because I think it is so beautiful. I found an artist, Elena Ray, …read more

By Todd Scacewater Duane Litfin’s Paul’s Theology of Preaching: The Apostle’s Challenge to the Art of Persuasion in Ancient Corinth updates and expands St. Paul’s Theology of Proclamation (1994), a revision of his dissertation. This latest version, which Litfin calls the “final” one, the one….
The post Paul’s Theology of Preaching: The Apostle’s …read more

By jps We all know the story of Jesus walking on water. And for most of us it is simply a great show of his power and authority but, truth be told, we don’t really see the point of it. However, Jesus did not actually walk on water. You did read that …read more

By Eerdmans What is God’s will for my life?
According to Bruce Waltke, a revered evangelical scholar, that’s not exactly the right question to ask. God wants us to be in his will, but that doesn’t mean divining the mind of God, or finding some special, individual revelation that lays out a detailed …read more

By James Pate I’ll make no secret about it: There are things Christians say that I do not find all that helpful. Actually, I find them paralyzing when it comes to living the spiritual life.This is particularly the case when it comes to giving to the poor. I …read more

By Loren Rosson But who’s counting?
On Facebook, David Livingstone Smith offers a list of 12 things that Freud got right:
1. The mind can fruitfully be modeled as a connectionist system.
2. The back-propagation of error (Paul Werbos explicitly derived this algorithm from Freud’s 1895 “Project for a scientific psychology”).
3. Mental processes are physical processes.
4. …read more

By Abram K-J Users of technical and original language-oriented commentaries are familiar with the International Critical Commentary series. The publisher of ICC has just announced the new International Theological Commentary series.
The publisher’s description of the series is as follows:
The T&T Clark International Theological Commentary (ITC) offers a verse by verse interpretation of the …read more

By jps The prophet Daniel had a disturbing vision in which he saw four great beasts come up out of the sea. Each was composed of the parts of various animals blended in unnatural combinations, and each represented a human political kingdom that was more animalistic than human. The beastly kingdoms stand …read more

By RichardMansfield We’ve had tremendous response to the NIV Zondervan Study Bible notes released earlier this week. Have you had a chance to look at it yet? I’d like to take a moment to clarify one very important aspect of this new study Bible. Many people assume that the NIV Zonderan …read more

By noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) I have just started reading Steven Smith’s Recapturing the Voice of God: Shaping Sermons Like Scripture (Nashville: B&H Academic, 2015). Smith suggests that the better way to preach texts is by allowing the genre and structure of the text to drive the structure of the sermon.So far the book has …read more

By Eerdmans There are different kinds of bad words. There are “bad words” that you use when you’re angry, and there are “bad words” that make you angry when they’re used. At my house, the words “penal substitutionary atonement” are bad words of the latter kind.
There are a couple of reasons for …read more

By Todd Scacewater Duane Litfin’s Paul’s Theology of Preaching: The Apostle’s Challenge to the Art of Persuasion in Ancient Corinth updates and expands St. Paul’s Theology of Proclamation (1994), a revision of his dissertation. This latest version, which Litfin calls the “final” one, the one….
The post Paul’s Theology of Preaching: The Apostle’s …read more

By Todd Scacewater Duane Litfin’s Paul’s Theology of Preaching: The Apostle’s Challenge to the Art of Persuasion in Ancient Corinth updates and expands St. Paul’s Theology of Proclamation (1994), a revision of his dissertation. This latest version, which Litfin calls the “final” one, the one….
The post Paul’s Theology of Preaching: The Apostle’s …read more

By Todd Scacewater Duane Litfin’s Paul’s Theology of Preaching: The Apostle’s Challenge to the Art of Persuasion in Ancient Corinth updates and expands St. Paul’s Theology of Proclamation (1994), a revision of his dissertation. This latest version, which Litfin calls the “final” one, the one….
The post Paul’s Theology of Preaching: The Apostle’s …read more

By jps We all know the story of Jesus walking on water. And for most of us it is simply a great show of his power and authority but, truth be told, we don’t really see the point of it. However, Jesus did not actually walk on water. You did read that …read more

By Eerdmans What is God’s will for my life?
According to Bruce Waltke, a revered evangelical scholar, that’s not exactly the right question to ask. God wants us to be in his will, but that doesn’t mean divining the mind of God, or finding some special, individual revelation that lays out a detailed …read more

By James Pate I’ll make no secret about it: There are things Christians say that I do not find all that helpful. Actually, I find them paralyzing when it comes to living the spiritual life.This is particularly the case when it comes to giving to the poor. I …read more

By Loren Rosson But who’s counting?
On Facebook, David Livingstone Smith offers a list of 12 things that Freud got right:
1. The mind can fruitfully be modeled as a connectionist system.
2. The back-propagation of error (Paul Werbos explicitly derived this algorithm from Freud’s 1895 “Project for a scientific psychology”).
3. Mental processes are physical processes.
4. …read more

By Abram K-J Users of technical and original language-oriented commentaries are familiar with the International Critical Commentary series. The publisher of ICC has just announced the new International Theological Commentary series.
The publisher’s description of the series is as follows:
The T&T Clark International Theological Commentary (ITC) offers a verse by verse interpretation of the …read more

By jps The prophet Daniel had a disturbing vision in which he saw four great beasts come up out of the sea. Each was composed of the parts of various animals blended in unnatural combinations, and each represented a human political kingdom that was more animalistic than human. The beastly kingdoms stand …read more

By RichardMansfield We’ve had tremendous response to the NIV Zondervan Study Bible notes released earlier this week. Have you had a chance to look at it yet? I’d like to take a moment to clarify one very important aspect of this new study Bible. Many people assume that the NIV Zonderan …read more

By noreply@blogger.com (Charles Savelle) I have just started reading Steven Smith’s Recapturing the Voice of God: Shaping Sermons Like Scripture (Nashville: B&H Academic, 2015). Smith suggests that the better way to preach texts is by allowing the genre and structure of the text to drive the structure of the sermon.So far the book has …read more

By Eerdmans There are different kinds of bad words. There are “bad words” that you use when you’re angry, and there are “bad words” that make you angry when they’re used. At my house, the words “penal substitutionary atonement” are bad words of the latter kind.
There are a couple of reasons for …read more

By Neil Godfrey There is no need for any argument to prove Jesus existed. In Galatians 1:19 Paul says he met Jesus’s brother so of course Jesus existed. What need is there for any further discussion? That’s how the case for the historicity of Jesus goes. But some would say that I’m being …read more

By Kunigunde Kreuzerin .Theories of our Bernard are currently hot topics. Personally, I was always very interested in his thesis that Q was a late development of Mark and complementing and correcting Mark’s gospel. I agree with many of his observations about the relationship between material of Mark and the double tradition.Bernard wrote:This …read more

By Biblical Archaeology Society Staff Joseph AviramYom huledet sameach! Happy birthday, Joseph (he pronounces it Yosef). On March 16, 2016, Joseph Aviram turned 100 years old!
Joseph Aviram is still the working president of the Israel Exploration Society. Indeed, Joseph Aviram and the Israel Exploration Society (IES) are almost synonymous. He has been associated with the …read more

By Tyler Smith This is a guest post by Andrew B. Perrin. assistant professor of religious studies and co-director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute at Trinity Western University.
A few years ago I Googled “faith” and discovered that the top two hits were a George Michael video on YouTube, which made me …read more

By Mark Ward The better you learn how to use Logos Bible Software, the more you’ll get out of your Bible study. Logos is designed to provide insight into the Bible. Every tool has that ultimate goal.
If you want to learn how to use Logos—because you want to study the Bible—you’ve got to …read more

By Mason Slater The following is an excerpt from N. T. Wright’s essay “Paul and Missional Hermeneutics” in The Apostle Paul and the Christian Life, edited by Scot McKnight and Joseph Modica.
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One of the great benefits of some kinds of “new perspective” reading (note that there are many different kinds of reading which …read more

By Phillip J. Long The opponents in Jude misuse the grace of God as a license to sin. These seems to be the key problem Jude needs to address. The teachers seem to have been antinomian, a perversion of the gospel which argues that those who are saved are somehow “beyond” the law, …read more

By Ulan As quite a few posts on this forum deal with the question of the historical reality of the figure of Jesus Christ or the stories in the gospels, I find it a good idea to look a bit sideways to how some faiths throw some light on the relationship between …read more

By Steve Bricker Continuing my posts of patristic texts coinciding with this Sunday’s Psalm study.The Lᴏʀᴅ is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.The Lᴏʀᴅ is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made. (Ps 145:8-9)Were He …read more

By Nijay Gupta Pre-order this book!
The Crosses of Pompeii: Jesus-Devotion in a Vesuvian Town (Fortress, May 1, 2016).

Through a twist of fate, the eruption that destroyed Pompeii in 79 CE also preserved a wealth of evidence about the town, buried for centuries in volcanic ash. Since the town’s excavations in the eighteenth century, …read more

By Lindsay We are working through B&H’s Perspectives on Israel and the Church: 4 Views. See my introduction and other posts in this series. This post summarizes Robert Thomas’ chapter defending the Traditional Dispensational viewpoint.
Israel and the Church in Progressive Dispensationalism
Robert Saucy, the third and final Robert, presents a Progressive Dispensational view …read more

By Lindsay We are working through B&H’s Perspectives on Israel and the Church: 4 Views. See my introduction and other posts in this series. This post summarizes Robert Thomas’ chapter defending the Traditional Dispensational viewpoint.
Israel and the Church in Progressive Dispensationalism
Robert Saucy, the third and final Robert, presents a Progressive Dispensational view …read more

By larryhurtado I’ve just had word that my forthcoming book, Destroyer of the Gods: Early Christian Distinctiveness in the Roman World (Baylor University Press, Sept 2016) is available for pre-order here.
More on it later, but there’s a decent “blurb” on the publisher’s web site. …read more

By Jacob J. Prahlow In the formative years between the time of the Apostles of Jesus and the Apologists of Christianity stand a number of texts which reflect the labor of early Church leaders as they attempted to outline acceptable ethics and what it meant to be the Christian Church. Long neglected, in recent …read more

By Ben Witherington Here is a second paraphrase, this time of 2 Cor. 3 from Lightfoot. Reflect on it—- Will it be thought that in thus contrasting ourselves with false teachers that we are beginning again to recommend ourselves (as we have been obliged necessarily to do)? Surely, no one will suppose that …read more

By Richard Carrier If you haven’t already, do consider taking my online course next month on the science & philosophy of free will—or recommend it to anyone you think might be interested! It starts in just two days. You can get in within its first six.
Meanwhile, a brief update and foreshadow:
I’ve been spending …read more

By MrMacSon What does not meet with these criteria is not a myth –ie. what does meet these criteria is likely to be a myth: A story, possible to narrate with words, containing events leading to some distinguishable change of circumstances. A setting in a distant past*, from which no first-hand report …read more

By Henry Neufeld On March 24, 2016, blog entry marked 11:40 AM, Dave Black talks about translating poetry and links to his essay on the topic from a Festschrift, available via Google Docs.
Reading Dave’s comments about translating poetry reminded me of one of my favorite translations of poetry from any language to any …read more

P.Oxy. 67.4633 P.Oxy. 67.4633 was once a beautiful scroll containing scholia (a kind of ancient commentary) to Homer’s Iliad (see image at left). This third century C.E. papyrus was discovered among the trash mounds at the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus. The papyrus sheet preserves two columns of text written …read more